Midsomer Norton

Methodist Church

History notes

Home War Memorial (WW I) WW2 

Thomas Bailey, Rex Bird, Henry W Bissex, Joseph Bullock, Frederick Gay,

Herbert Holpin, Frank Hutchinson, Wilfred Kevil, Anthony Mountjoy,

Frederick Norman, Arthur Purnell, E Claude Sands, Percy Shearn,

William Small, Frederick Throssell, Edward Turner

Church website Town War Memorial Links

Church Trustee meeting minutes of February 1921 show

…the opinion that our Church ought to make a permanent record of the sacrifice of the lives of our own men in the Great War irrespective of the general town's memorial.

At a later date that month the meeting agreed the memorial should consist of an oak frame with two Bronze Panels and the best position for erection was considered to be the vestibule of the church.

The cost was estimated at £50 and funding was partially from Church monies and the rest from donations from families and friends.

There are  16 men on the war memorial. Some are easily connected with the Church as they appear in class lists and minutes from various meetings. Others are less easily connected.